Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Lithuania and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing the Sonics to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
The Saints,
Von Mondo,
Pantytec,
Babytalk,
Cheater Slicks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cymande,
Sonic Youth,
The Real Kids,
Duran Duran,
Skriet,
Mandrill,
Eric Copeland,
Sparks,
Lower 48,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Happenings,
Carl Craig,
Liliput,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Stooges,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sex Pistols,
Deadbeat,
Soul II Soul,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Gun Club,
Marine Girls,
The Kinks,
Gang Starr,
Animal Collective,
Swans,
Supertramp,
The Smoke,
Clear Light,
Thee Headcoats,
Erasure,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gregory Isaacs,
X-101,
Bobby Sherman,
Camberwell Now,
Eli Mardock,
the Normal,
Public Enemy,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Barracudas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Idris Muhammad,
Wire,
Jandek,
Rotary Connection,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Boogie Down Productions,
Chrome,
Gerry Rafferty,
Qualms,
Talk Talk,
The Fugs,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.